Posts tagged "Jim James"

The Roots' forthcoming How I Got Over will feature John Legend and Jim James, as well as a sample of The Milk-Eyed Mender's "Book OF Right-On." Newsom didn't re-record it -- she appears in sampled form. For his part, Jim James re-made Monsters Of Folk's "Dear God" without his fellow Monsters. There's still no release… More »

We mentioned Jim James's appearance on the Preservation Hall's Benefit LP a couple months back. The house jazz band started a short tour with My Morning Jacket yesterday that will continue to May 2. As you can see in the gallery, the two bands did some songs together, which is no surprise. "I couldn't… More »

Yim Yames told BBC 6 Music My Morning Jacket's working on their sixth album ("[W]e're knocking around three or four songs") and that Monsters Of Folk will "likely" follow their self-title debut with another collection. (Thanks for the tip, Brad.)… More »

The last time a video featured Conor Oberst in a public performance period piece, he was getting clobbered by trash and tomatoes. But that was before he and Mogis recruited Yim Yames on drums and M. Ward on piano to form the hydra-headed Paste-rock superbeast Monsters Of Folk, so this time around the receptio… More »

In a very special Halloween edition of the 'Gum Drop, David "Moose" Adamson, aka Jookabox, told us "Evil Nite" -- "a song about the infection taking hold of a pure soul in limbo" -- is an early version of "Zombie Tear Drops" from his Indianapolis crew's zombie-inspired Dead Zone Boys (Asthmatic Kitty, 11/3). We… More »

Conor Oberst, M. Ward, Jim James, Mike Mogis, and Centro-matic's Will Johnson donned their best late-night suits and played Seattle's Paramount Theatre last night. Photographer Laura Musselman was on hand and delivers this set of shots. More »

Monsters Of Folk are four dudes better known for other projects, they are the Them Crooked Vultures of the NPR-section of contemporary music, they are like the Traveling Wilburys but not as iconic, all of this is true. But also they are four dudes best known for playing guitar while they sing, which you're reminded… More »

And art it is. On the front sleeve of the forthcoming Monsters Of Folk album is an illustration of the lite-indie superheroes' beatific mugs, just beckoning you to listen to more NPR. Matthew Hollings rendered the drawing, and also scribbled a portrait of the four bro-ing down with arms on each other's shoulders for the… More »

As previously reported, Folk Monster "Yim Yames" recorded an EP of George Harrison covers in 2001 shortly after the Beatle died of lung cancer. The acoustic set, which features the MMJ frontman's takes on "Long, Long, Long," "Behind That Locked Door," "Love You To," "My Sweet Lord," "Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It… More »

The Paste-y supergroup of Conor, Matt, Yim, and Mike drop another pair of tracks from their forthcoming mindmeld. These aren't as free as was "Say Please," you'll have to pony up a couple bucks at iTunes. But at least one of them is considerably more folky, and both seem to have more easily identifiable… More »

The all-star roots troupe of Conor Oberst, Jim James, M. Ward, and Mike Mogis finally let us sample their Monsters Of Folk project with the not very folky "Say Please" the other day. The self-titled LP is due 9/22 via Shangri-La music, which is good news that gets better with today's announcement that the… More »

Finally some sounds to round out the months of vague news reports and website launches for Monsters Of Folk, the project that brings Yim Yames + M. Ward + Conor Oberst + Mike Mogis to one set of liner notes. On the back of just this one track, Monsters Of Folk are more… More »

The MMJ main brain recorded this six-song set of covers just days after Harrison passed, but it will just now be distributed as Jim's first solo release. The EP, titled Tribute To, is due 8/4 via ATO. Tracklist at Billboard.com. Download "Behind That Door" at yimyames.com. More »

Matt sat with Paste to give an update on his various projects: She & Him Volume 2 is in the works, that Jim James-collab LP is looking at a 2010 (or '11) release date, and he's ready to release a new solo album, titled Hold Time. Look for it February '09. More »

My Morning Jacket's performance in Iowa City came to a sudden and unfortunate end last night when, after seven songs, Jim James "misjudged the stagefront" and collapsed into the crowd after some typically energetic stage-bounding during "Off The Record." Drummer Pat Hallihan told the crowd, "Jim is really hurt and he's heading to the hospital… More »

While we were sweating it out in Grant Park for Lollapalooza this past weekend, friend of the 'Gum and occasional photo contributor Jon Bahr was toughing it out up in Newport, Rhode Island for this year's installment of the annual folk festival. Well, maybe not toughing it out, exactly. Jon describes the scene: The setting… More »

Maybe some of the festivals we've been announcing are too loud for the folkier souls out there (Devendra). If that's the case, the Newport Folk Festival just unveiled their '08 lineup and new Dunkin' Donuts-free name. The longstanding fest's 49th year includes Jimmy Buffett, Cat Power, the Black Crowes, She & Him, Kaki King, Jim… More »

This is it everybody, the last photo post of SXSW '08. That means it's time for our superlatives, so welcome to our list of the SXSW 2008 Top Five. These are the bands who delivered sets we could not stop talking about, to friends, to strangers on planes, to people in line for cabs. More »

You can stop watching the I'm Not Theretrailer now and get listening to some of the soundtrack for Todd Haynes' mucho anticipated, shape-shifting Dylan flick. Check out the album art below -- A Bobby double looming large. Sufjan, Chan, and Jim James & Calexico streams after the jump. More »

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Last spring the world got a brief preview of Once Upon A Time In Shaolin, the secret Wu-Tang Clan album that will be released in a limited edition of 1 and auctioned off to the highest bidder. That might be all most of us hear from the project for the rest of our… More »

Kanye West debuted his much-leaked single "All Day" at the Brit Awards last week, and now a studio version has emerged. The So Help Me God song's bouncy, bass-heavy beat also features verses from Allan Kingdom and Theophilus London, and a massive "Monster"/"Black Skinhead"-style riff slices through the track from time… More »

Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" was one of the defining jams of summer 2012, but it was the sort of song that screamed "one-hit wonder" from the rooftops. Well, that's not going to be the case. Today, Jepsen comes back with a new single called "I Really Like You," and it is absolute top-shelf… More »

Mumford & Sons have announced the details of their third full-length, Wilder Mind, and it's bound to sound pretty different from the rest of the folk-rock group's output. As As they told Rolling Stone, the band went completely electric for the new album, ditching the folkier elements that catapulted them to fame. "We felt… More »

Kanye West has announced the title of his new album. It will be called So Help Me God, and that's presumably the cover art up above. It appears to be a 13th Century monastic symbol for the Virgin Mary according to this conspiracy theory website Google Image Search turned up. We were just More »